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    Robot Scientist Makes Discovery On its Own

    A robot named Adam that can form hypotheses and test them has made its first discovery without human help.

    Sarah Morgan
    by Sarah Morgan

    Community Contributor

    So far it has only discovered what some genes in yeast do. But that is no reason not to panic. And the team who built Adam is working on an Eve! Great. Just great.

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